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Mr. Jared Dains, E.I. .Applegate Group, Inc. 1499 West 120 Avenue, Suite 200 Denver, Colorado 80234 -2759 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES e WS DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES November 16, 2011 RE: Feit Pit Substituie Water Supply Plan (WDID 0302580) Feit Pit, DRMS1977 -522 (WDID- 0303000) Section 26, T6N, R66W, 6th P.M. Water Division 1, Water District 3, Weld County Approval Period: November 1, 2011 through October 31, 2012 Contact Phone Number for Mr. Dains: 303 - 452 -6611 Dear Mr. Dains: Office of the Sta e ngineer 1313 Sherman Street, Suite 818 • Denver, CO 80203 • Phone: 303 - 866 -3581 • Fax: 303 - 866 -3589 www.water.state.co.us John W. Hickenlooper Governor Mike King Executive Director Dick Wolfe, P.E. Director /State Engineer 48 01/80 4V 182011 Pivialen of Reclamation, Mining 8 Safety We have reviewed your letter of October 18, 2011 requesting renewal of the above referenced substitute water supply plan ( "SWSP ") for an existing sand and gravel operation. The required fee of $257.00 for the renewal of this SWSP has been submitted (receipt no. 3652731). The original SWSP was approved. on August 8, 2000 and it was most recently approved in a letter dated October 22, 2010. SWSP Operations The total surface area of the ground water exposed at the Feit Pit site equals 40.2 acres (26.4 acres at the West Pit and 13.8 acres at the East Pit). According to the information submitted, 34.1 acres of ground water was exposed after December 31, 1980 and 6.1 acres of ground water was exposed within the reclamation permit boundary prior to January 1, 1981. Dewatering at the site has not occurred from Water Year ( "WY ") 2009 to present. The Feit Pit will not be dewatered during WY 2012. For the term of this SWSP, your letter indicates that depletions at the Feit Pit site will be replaced by augmentation water leased from the Platte River Power Authority and the Graham Drainage Ditch Company. In accordance with the letter dated April 30, 2010 (copy attached) from the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety ( "DRMS "), all sand and gravel mining operators must comply with the requirements of the Colorado Reclamation Act and the Mineral Rules and Regulations for the protection of water resources. The April 30, 2010 letter from DRMS 'requires that you provide information to DRMS to demonstrate you can replace long term injurious stream depletions that result from mining related exposure of ground water. The DRMS letter identifies four approaches to satisfy this requirement. If the information you are providing to DRMS is included under the approaches numbered 1 — 3, a copy of that information needs to also be provided to this office (the Division of Water Resources).